All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.

There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

Numerical quantities focus on expected values, graphical summaries on unexpected values.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.